WWALS Watershed Coalition advocates for conservation and stewardship of the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, and Suwannee River watersheds in south Georgia and north Florida through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.

Troupville to US 84, Withlacoochee River, 2019-02-0203

Update 2019-01-31:
We’re paddling unless it rains or the river rises,
and thanks to The Langdale Company for
a better takeout.

A long and rarely-paddled stretch with a confluence, some creeks, some wastewater treatment plants we won’t see and we hope we don’t smell, some shoals, and a challenging takeout. Bonus old bridge if we want to paddle down a bit farther and back.

US 84 Landing, 5092 US 84 W, Valdosta, GA 31601.
Between the twin highway bridges on the Lowndes County side. Problematical access from busy highway right of way. Also known as Quitman Landing.

Bring: a rope, in case we need to drag boats over shoals. Clippers for deadfall branches would also be useful.
Plus the usual personal flotation device, boat paddles, food, drinking water, warm clothes, and first aid kit.
Also trash pickers and trash bags: every WWALS outing is also a cleanup.

Free: This outing is free to WWALS members, and $10 (ten dollars) for non-members.
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becoming a WWALS member today!

Little River Confluence with Withlacoochee River:30.847172, -83.347652.
About 2300 feet downstream from Troupville Boat Ramp,
the Little River joins the Withlacoochee River, although it looks like it’s the
other way around.

Valdosta’s Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP):
We won’t see from the water the most notorious things along this stretch of the rivers: Valdosta’s old and new WWTPs, with a long history of
spills,
apparently (we hope) finally fixed now.

Photo: John S. Quarterman, looking south across GA 133,
with Troupville Boat Ramp center left, Little River Confluence with Withlacoochee River, Old WWTP center, New WWTP above it to the right, and landfills closed and open,
on WWALS Southwings flight 2018-10-22.

Wetherington Creek:30.837028818801393, -83.364229114375377.
That’s what we’re calling the creek that drains the WTPs;
we may be able to spot it coming out of the swamps
after a hair-pin river bend.